Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-14
hould be conseor.ted to all that is holy
PEACEFUL AND BEAUTIFUL.

I
regulations, parents have sometimes car
ried themselves with great rigor. John
Howard, VINO was merciful in the prisons
and lsZarettos, was mercifui in the trest-
ment of his children. John Milton knew
everything but how to train his family.
Severe and unreasonable was he in his
carriage toward them. He made them
read to him in four or five different Ian
guages, but would not allow them to
learn any of them, for he said that one
tongue was enough for woman. Their
reading was mechanical drudgery, when,
if they had understood the Languages
they read, the employment Of reading
might have been 8 luxury. No wonder
his children despised him, and stealthily
-sold his books and hoped for his death.
In al ages there has been need of
society for prevention Of cruelty to
children. When Barbara was put to
death by her father because she had coun-
termended his order and had three
windows put in a room instead OF
two, this cruel parent was q type
of many who have acted the Nero and the
Robespierre in the home circle. The
heart sickens at WHIST you sometimes see,
even in families that pretend to be Chris
tian-perpetual scolding, and hsir-pull-
ing, and esr-boXing, and humping, and
stamping, and fault finding, and teasing,
until the children are veXed beyond
bounds and groWl in the sleeve, and pout,
and rebel, and vow within themselves
that in after days they will retaliate for
the cruelties practiced. Msnya home hss
become IS full of dispute as was the home
of John O'Groat, who built his house at
the most northerly point in Great Britain.
And tradition says that the house hsd
eight windows, and eight doors, and
table of eight sides, because he had eight
children, and the only way to keep them
out Of bitter quarrel WAS to have sepa-
rate appointment for each one OF them.
, That child's nature is too delicate to be
I worked upon by sledge-hsmmer, and
gouge, and pile-driver. Such
FIERCE LASTING,
l instead Of breaking the high mettle to bit
= and trace, will make it dash off the more
, uncomfortable. Many seem to think that
/ children are flax-not fit for use till they
8 have been hetcheled and swingled. Some
{ one talking to child said: 81 wonder
what makes that tree out there so crook
: ed" The child replied: "I suppose il
s was trod on while it was young" In
e some families all the discipline is concen
+ trated upon one child's head. II anything
:, is done wrong, the superstition is thai
: George did it. He broke the latch. He
!. left open. the gate. He hacked the bannls
Y tiers. He whitfield sticks on the carpets
!. And George shall be the scapegoSt for al
d domestic misunderstanding and suspic-
ions. If things get wrong in the CULINARY
= department, in comes the mother and says
t. angriIy: "Where is George?" Ii business
e matters are perpleXing at the store, in
N,kI o. icrhS nd
l. grily: 'EWhere is George?" In many {
If household there is such one singled GU
h for suspicion and castigation. All tn
e. sweet flowers of his soul blasted undo
this perpetual northeast storm, he curse
d the dsy in which he was born. Safer tn
n child in an ark Of bulrushes on the Nil
ID among crocodiles than in an elegant man
1T sion amid such domestic gorgons. !
{. mother was passing along the street on
E. day and came up to her little child, VIII
q, did not see her approach, and her chill
II was saying to her playmates: "4o
N good for nothing little scamp, you com
right into the house this minute, or wi
beat you till the skin comes off," Tn
n mother broke in saying: "Why, Lizzie
= am surprised to hesr you talk like tia
&c to anyone" "Oh," said the little child
~ al was only playing, and he is my littl
IL. boy, and l am scolding him, as you di
nj me this morning." Children are spt I
81 be echoes Of their parents.
ne Safer in q Bethlehem mGnger anon
ey cattle and camels, with gentle Mary
or watch the little innocent, than the mo!
lie extravagant nursery over which God
On star of peace never stood. The trapp'
TO extinguishes the flames on the prairie
u fighting
e. FIRE WITH FIRE,
y but YOU cannot, with the are of your on
or disposition, put out the fire OF child
Ve disposition.
ng Yet we may rush to the other extren
OF and rule children by too great lenienc
K, The surgeon is not unkind because no
withstanding the resistance OF his patiel
q he goes straight on with firm hand an
IN unfalteriug heart to take Off the gaDgren
OF Nor is the parent less ahectionate or
On faithful because, Notwithstanding all vi
g. lent remonstrances on the part of Il
its child, he with the frmest discipline az
n vences to the cutting of of its evil incl
us nations. The Bible says: "Chasten Il
nd son while there is hope, and let n
No thy soul spare for his crying
ISL Childish rage unchecked will, after
er, while, become q hurricane. Childi
Ter petulance will grow up into misanthrop
ed Childish rebellion will develop into t
20 lawlessness OF riot and sedition. Ii u
ley would ruin the child, dance to his eve
lie caprice and stuff him with confecticnel
so, Before you are aware Of it that boy OF S
OF years will GO down the street, a cigar
re, his mouth and ready on any corner WI
1re his comrades TO compare pugilistic
en- tainments. The parent who allows t
cir child to grow up without ever haVi
nd learned the great duty of obedience
submission has prepared cup OF bur
len ing gall for his own lips and appalling
re struction for his descendant. Rememt
hat Eli and his two sons, Hophni q
Phinehas.
A second error prevalent in the trai
md ing of children is laying out OF thee
hst and following it without arranging it
re- varieties of disposition. In every fam
no YOU will find striking differences Of te
me- permanent. This child is too timid, 6
Tn that too bold, and this too misery, 9
ter that too wasteful; this too inactive, 6
in that too boisterous. Now, the farm
ed. who should plant corn, and wheat
m, turnips in just the same way, then
its them